What it Was Like Inside a Nike Call Center After the Colin Kaepernick Ad Dropped
Zalig artikel bij Rolling Stone: – How many callers have told you they are burning their sneakers? – A lot of people. They also tell me they are throwing them off overpasses. I say, “OK, great.”
Making sense of the most confusing new iPhone lineup ever
Harry McCracken bij Fast Company: For all their similarities, the new phones don’t line up into a digestible good/better/best matrix. The cheapest model, the $749 XR, is the midrange model in terms of size and has a nifty twist—six different color options to choose from—which is unavailable on the XS and XS Max. But if […]
Hoe de podcasts van De Standaard 350.000 keer werden beluisterd
Interessant interview van Yorick Dupon (zonder T) bij Tandem Tech met Wouter Van Driessche, chef audio en video bij De Standaard: Video, tekst, foto en alle dingen die we als printmedia al even doen, die concurreren om dezelfde twee schaarse middelen: uw ogen. Met podcasts kan je iets aanspreken dat op andere momenten vrij is: […]
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
Een uitstekend profielstuk aan de hand van Evan Osnos in The New Yorker. When I asked Zuckerberg about this reputation, he framed the dynamic differently. The survival of any social-media business rests on “network effects,” in which the value of the network grows only by finding new users. As a result, he said, “there’s a […]
The Talk Show ‘IPHONE 🍸’, WITH SPECIAL GUEST RENE RITCHIE
Great episode to prepare for the Keynote tonight. (19:00 Brussels time.) Rene Ritchie returns to the show for a deep dive into what was revealed (and what wasn’t) by Guilherme Rambo’s release last week of product marketing images of the apparently-named iPhone XS and Series 4 Apple Watch.
Letter to the German Press
Jay Rosen bij de Frankfurter Allgemeine: It’s not your job, as journalists, to tell people what to think. But it is your job to alert them to what they need to think about. Social scientists call this agenda-setting. It is one of the most important things journalists do. But if the news agenda is set […]
Dense Discovery: A weekly newsletter helping web workers be productive, stay inspired, and think critically.
De nieuwsbrief van Offscreen Magazine kreeg een nieuw jasje en is nu ‘Dense Discovery’. Eén van de weinige nieuwsbrieven waarvoor ik graag ga zitten.
Paradox of tolerance
Interessant op Wikipedia: The paradox of tolerance was described by Karl Popper in 1945. The paradox states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Popper came to the seemingly paradoxical conclusion that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the […]
De Rudi en Freddie Show: Een podcast vol verontwaardiging
Alweer een steengoede aflevering.